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A short meditation on white privilege.
Setting everything else aside for another moment, #Kavanaugh's testimony is a virtually perfect illustration of how ugly it looks to ignore your white privilege.
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Setting everything else aside for another moment, #Kavanaugh's testimony is a virtually perfect illustration of how ugly it looks to ignore your white privilege.
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In dodging Sen. Whitehouse's questions about the 'Ralph Club,' Kavanaugh boasted about getting into Yale, and then Yale Law School. "Worked my tail off," he said.
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Later, he said, "I got into Yale Law School. That’s the number one law school in the country. I had no connections there. I got there by busting my tail in college."
Surely he did.
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Surely he did.
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But not for a moment did Kavanaugh recognize what put his tail in a position to be busted – that his parents, apparently people of means, were able to send him to Georgetown Prep and give every advantage he needed to get ahead.
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You're not required to reject the privilege you are born with or are given in this life. You're not forbidden from using the advantages you have. But to be a good person, you really *do* have to acknowledge that your privilege and your advantages exist.
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You can't just walk around saying that all this happened because I "worked my tail off."
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